Slink Notes
I finally got around to doing an scratch install of enough of slink to
have a functional system, and here are things I've noticed.
1) missing module descriptions during install
As I mentioned in an earlier rant, some descriptions are missing. I've
saved all the correspondence re this issue from the list, and if time
permits will be doing what I can to help rectify the problem.
2) problem with isapnp, detects non-existent resource conflict
Output follows (no problem on hamm with same hardware):
Board 1 has Identity 69 e1 1c 6c c8 01 22 8b 11: DLK2201 Serial No 3776736456 [checksum 69]
/etc/isapnp.conf:39 -- Warning - resource conflict allocating IRQ3
Calculating module dependencies... done.
Loading modules: ne ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x240: 00 80 c8 6c 1c e1
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x240, using IRQ 3.
This is a D-Link ISA PNP board that works fine and installs with no
complaints under hamm. There is only a single serial port in the
machine, assigned to IRQ4, so I have no idea why ISAPNP thinks there is
a conflict.
$ cat /proc/interrupts
0: 89088 timer
1: 4900 keyboard
2: 0 cascade
3: 0 NE2000
8: 2 + rtc
10: 12020 + BusLogic BT-930
12: 0 PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 math error
14: 124 + ide0
15: 0 + ide1
3) no exit from modconf when invoked from shell
After I got the base system installed and added the man pages so I could
figure out what to do with isapnp, I needed to run modconf to take care
of my NIC. It worked fine, but wouldn't let me exit (kept bringing me
back to the exit screen). I had to open another VC and kill it.
Note: just for tickles (because of the comments on the list about adding
man pages to the base install), I did 'apt-get install man-db' first
thing to see what apt would bring in. 'groff' and 'man-db' are the two
packages, and they won't fit on a 1.44MB floppy. They don't miss by
much, though, so it's possible that man could be added at the cost of
one additional floppy in the base set.
4) linuxlogo is a little too articulate when it comes to displaying my
CPU type:
One AMD AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions Processor, 32M RAM
This wraps and makes a mess of my nice penguin. :-(
It also doesn't appear that linux_logo obeys all the listed options when
it's invoked from the prompt. I don't know if this is a debian issue or
an upstream issue. I'll probably eventually chase this as I'm a big fan
of this silly little program and I want a perfect penguin on my TV.
5) When I installed the kernel-source-2.0.36 package I found the source
tarball in /usr/src. Everything else was fine
(/usr/doc/kernel-source..., etc.).
I unraveled the tarball and linked /usr/src/linux to
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.36 and went on my merry way with make-kpkg,
but I'm sure I haven't had to do this in the past.
Bug, or feature?
6) There may be a problem with APM and the system and hardware clocks,
or it may be a configuration problem.
I haven't had time to chase this one at all, but I left my new slink
system running all day yesterday while I dealt with things in the real
world, and when I returned and found it sleeping, I woke it with a
keystroke. Both the system clock and hardware clock reflected the time
it went to sleep, not the time it awoke.
And that's all, folks.
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